• Breaking News

    Wednesday, October 26, 2016

    Two magnitude earthquakes roks part of Italy leaving two injured.

    Scared residents with flash lights 
    Central Italy has experienced two strong earthquakes this evening, damaging buildings and displacing scaring residents on the streets, officials further made it clear that it was 5.5-magnitude quake which struck at about 19:10 local time (17:10 GMT) near Visso in Macerata province.

    Another 6.1-magnitude struck again immediately and left two people injured, report says the quakes happened just after two months when a powerful struck slightly to the south leaving 295 people dead.
    For this recent quakes that struck, no life have been reported lost, and the affected areas are being accessed by emergency services.

    Eyewitness said a building collapsed in front of him when being interviewed by Italian TV and chief of Italy's civil protection said two people have so far being injured in Visso area and that there are currently no more casualties.
    One of the building affected by the quakes
    Power supplies are being affected by the struck of the quake and landslide on a main road of Rome.

    "It was a very strong earthquake, apocalyptic," Marco Rinaldi, mayor of Ussita to the east of Visso, told Italy's Ansa news agency, referring to the second earthquake.

    "People are screaming on the street and now we are without lights."

    Schools are expected to be closed down because of the quakes report says.

    Local media report says the Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi is currently on his way to Rome.

    The first earthquake, 7km south-southwest of Visso, was relatively shallow, at a depth of 9km (nearly six miles).

    The second, at 2118 local time, was 2km north-northwest of Visso, at a depth of 10km.

    "Aftershocks can last for a long time, sometimes for months," AFP news agency quoted Mario Tozzi of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics as saying.

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